tail-fly

The water-knot is so simple and neat, that it is the best for the purpose of fixing on the tail-fly, which, by the way, should be the heaviest of those you are about to use, if there is any difference between them.

Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior

As the tail-fly reached the middle of the water, a fine trout literally turned a somersault over it, but without touching it.

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

In the back of my fly-book I discovered a tiny phantom minnow -- a dainty affair of varnished silk, as light as a feather -- and quietly attached it to the leader in place of the tail-fly.

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

Water for a tail-fly and a Yellow Sally for a dropper, -- innocent little confections of feathers and tinsel, dressed on the tiniest hooks, and calculated to tempt the appetite or the curiosity of the most capricious trout.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

He does not entangle the dropper-fly in the net and tear the tail-fly out of the fish's mouth.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

I made a long cast, and sent the tail-fly close to the edge of the weeds.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate.

In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He kept the grizzled palmer still for tail-fly, and he tried his knots, for he knew that this trout was

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864